The Faded Apartment

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The chime of the bell was not a sound but a fracture in the air, a sharp, metallic tear that split the silence of the corridor in two, leaving behind a residue of ozone and old dust that hung suspended in the beam of the single, flickering gaslight. Margaret Holloway did not look up from the ledger, her quill hovering above the page with a precision that belied the trembling of her hands, a...

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